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Risk-Taking and Smoking Tendency Among Primarily African American School Children: Moderating Influences of Peer Susceptibility |
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| Authors: | Bernard F. Fuemmeler Lloyd A. Taylor Arnold E. Metz Jr. Ronald T. Brown |
| Affiliation: | (1) Departments of Pediatrics and Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, South Carolina, USA;(2) Present address: Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Boulevard (EPN) Suite 3109, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7361;(3) Department of Clinical Services, Medical University of South Carolina, South Carolina |
| Abstract: | We examined the hypothesis that peer susceptibility would moderate the association between risk-taking and tendency to smoke in adolescents who were primarily African American. Participants were 88 preadolescents recruited from a 6th grade classroom in a public elementary school. We found an interaction of risk-taking and susceptibility to peer influence on smoking tendency. Specifically, a moderator effect was found for peer influence on the association between risk-taking and smoking tendency. The importance of examining peer susceptibility on health promotion and other health behaviors in children and adolescents was supported. |
| Keywords: | children adolescent smoking risk-taking peer influence |
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